Chimney-protector.



1.1. SHILLER. CHlMNEY PROTECTOR. APPLICATION FILED :uuzzs. 1915.

Patented Apr. 11, 1916.

. adapted to fit within JOHNJ. SHILLER, OF ROWENA, TEXAS.

CHIMNEY-PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 11, 1916.

Application filed June 25, 1915. Serial No. 86,311.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JoHN J. SHILLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Rowena, in the county of Runnels and State of Texas, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Chimney-Protectors, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to chimney protectors especially adapted to beused in oil cooking stoves and it consists in the novel featureshereinafter described and claimed.

An object of the invention is to provide a protector in the form of asingle piece of material, easy and cheap to' manufacture which, whenapplied to the chimney top of an oil cooking stove will prevent thedrippings or 'over flow from utensils placed on top of the stove fromrunning down theside of the chimney and injuring the same or obscuringthe transparency with which the chimney is provided. I

With the above object in view the'protector is in the form of a circularpan having at its center an opening which is surrounded by a dependingflange. The said flange .is I the top portionof the chimney. The pan 1sprovided with concentric inner and outer wall portions,- which convergedownwardly toward each other and serve as means for directing any liquidwhich may fall upon the pan, upon the bottom portion thereof and betweenthe said converging side portions.

In the accompanying drawing :-Figure '1 is a detail sectional view of aportion of an oil cooking stove, showing the chimney protector appliedthereto. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the protector. Fig. 3 is atransverse sectional view of the same.

'The stove to which. the protector is applied includes a chimney -lhaving a mica cover transparency 2. The upper end 3 of the chimney 1 isapproximately conical (not shown).

The protector is in the form of a pan 4 I open at its center-as at 5.The opening 5 is surrounded by a depending annular flange 6 which isadapted to fit 1n the upper end of the chimney 1 when the protector isapplied thereto. The pan also includes an inner wall 7 and an outer wall8. These walls are concentrically positioned "with relation to eachother and are spaced from each other by the bottom of the pan. The walls7 and 8 converge downwardly toward each other. \Vhen the protector is inposition upon the upper end of the chimney 4 the wall 7 rests upon thecone-shaped upper end 3 of the said chimney.

'When the protector is in position upon the upper end of the chimney andin the event that liquid should overflow from any of the utensils'on'top of the stove, the said overflow will precipitate and fall into thepan and is directed by the converging side walls thereof upon the bottomof the pana' Thus the liquid cannot come in contact with the chimney andthe transparency thereof. As these chimneys are usually provided withglazed surfaces any liquid which touches the same while the chimney ishot cracks and mutilates'the glazing and thus causes it to chip ofi".Also should the liquid come in contact with the mica transparency thesame is rendered opaque and useless. The protector may be readilyremoved from the chimney at any time for cleansing or other purposes.Therefore it will be seen that a chimney protector of simple structureis provided and that the same will efficiently oper-.

ate to protect the chimney against dripping's from the top of a stove.Having described the invention what is claimed is In combination with achimney, a protector formed from a single piece of material having anopen center,

the said protector being in the form of a pan having downwardlyconverging inner and outer walls and provided with an annular flangesurrounding the opening at the center, the surface of the said flangebeing disposed perpendicular to the plane in which the bottom of the panlies and fitting snugly in the chimney and holding the protector inposition thereon with the inner converging wall of the pan disposed overthe upper ed e of the chimney, the lower edge of JOHN J. SHILLER.Witnesses: v i

A. L. BUonK, ANTON PUBTKA.

the ange lying in the same plane as that in which the bottom of the pan

